LurkingLuddite

Everyone is focused on the exit, when clearly there is still a vulnerability to the entrance side. If someone is identified as a bad actor, you do not want your own personal address showing up all over in the logs of who they’ve been conversing with… Regardless of what can be proven as to the nature of conversations, you will now have eyes on you.

So yes, a VPN is useful, just not for all the reasons the comments so far are addressing.

Nice! Sound like you’re on the right track, though might want to keep a live cd image on hand in case Windows decides to take over your boot options until you can finally squash it. xP

Try out some live boot disks then. Several flavors of linux will just boot up, and give you the option to install from within the booted OS. I forget which ones lwt you change things and basically treat them like normal, but some will even carry over any made changes right through the install (if you tell it to, anyways).

Then, you’ll just have to identify any critical applications you need and see if they run on linux, or have any viable alternatives that do, or worst case try to run the windows flavor through Wine or proton or so.

If you need stability above all, I’d recommend avoiding the bleeding edge distros or the young ones that are changing a lot. It sounds odd, but I’ve been digging MX Linux a lot, and I’ve tried a good few flavors over the years. It’s based on Debian Stable, so it’s repos won’t be the bleeding edge, but it has that classic Debian “Just Works” going for it. The only bugs I’ve had have been issues from Wayland that also affect other distros.

I dunno’ what the problem is. You cannot get syphilis if it’s just your piss hitting the toilet and surrounding area.

lol as if it was ever your money after you handed it over to corporations under capitalism… nono you absolute fool… that’s THEIR money now, regardless of whether it was a critical thing you needed to live.

rofl tell me you do not understand how FB got started without telling me…

That shit’s been a privacy nightmare from the beginning.

Zuck has been selling personal info from basically day 1. He’s been abusing people since day 1.

The day people realize convenience does not equal good is the day humanity grows up from a petulant child to a moronic teenager… Too bad it’s looking more and more like we’ll never make it past, “petulant child”.

Don’t worry. At the rate we’re goíng, humanity will be long dead before “AI” is remotely sentient, let alone salty.

Capitalism. Not tech.

You know why: Easy money.

It’s the HOA Karens that run politics, so you do the math on how well that’d work out.

and what happens when a mod or admin abuses their power? If the answer is only people whine about it, all you have is a minor step in the right direction and not an actual solution.

Because this is hardly a contentious discussion or topic, and something doesn’t have to be a guarantee to never the less be a trend…?

I think we should test this theory a little more.

Nah, the complaints get deleted faster than the wrong-think. The point is you aren’t given enough to ‘notice’ when the hammer comes down as it does in many communities here.

lol

If you’re losing the battle of wisdom against a toddler, perhaps there is a reason to listen to that toddler…

You seem to not understand how anarchy works. It is not, “no rules and everyone is equal amd does what they want”. It’s, “nobody is given de facto authority over others with which they can cudgel their compatriots”. Not having de facto, unquestionable authority is a long ways away from, “there are no rules for society”.

No, you are. You are just in denial about it.

You’re doing so much projection here it’s genuinely sad.

They did. Why are you tone policing? You’re doing exactly what they’re saying is bad…

How do you see overly heavy opinion based moderation if you’re never the target of it? You don’t. You just see communities that are weirdly same-think. Though I bet you’d just dismiss it as a consequence of the fediverse already self-selecting for a certain type, but that is wrong.

There is bad moderation all over the place, but you don’t see it, because many mods/admins prefer to ban and delete than to let the vote system do its job.

Anarchism is not about zero enforcement of rules. Especially wise ones like don’t dittle kids…